"Today marks five years since the authorization < http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf> of military
force in Iraq, setting
Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq
war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start.
And, five
years on, Iraq
is in shambles.

As Army captains who served in Baghdad
and beyond, we've seen the corruption and the sectarian division. We
understand
what it's like to be stretched too thin. And we know when it's time to
get
out."

Why do we not stop this incredible slaughter and waste and destruction,
this
sordid, interminable, and expanding war? I believe it boils down to one
central
reason. As a country we cannot bear to say that we have made a
horrible,
massive mistake. We cannot bear, in short, to lose face. What a reason
for
continuing. The one thing we might learn from this incredible tragedy
is to
gain a clear view of the enemy. If we peer closely through the blood
and death
and awful ruin we can see the enemy clearly. He is us.-- Psychologist
Carl
Rogers commenting on the Vietnam War